[1] Although no promotional singles were released from the album, several tracks ("The Drifter", "Gypsy Rider", "Del Gato" and "Are We Still Making Love") are well regarded among fans.

[4] Following a series of impromptu writing sessions at Clark's home, the pair entered the studio in early 1986 with drummer Michael Huey producing.

For the sessions, Huey assembled a backing band which included Roscoe Beck on bass, Otha Young on acoustic guitar, Skip Edwards on keyboards, and Long Ryders guitarist Stephen McCarthy added dobro and lap steel.

[6] Reviewing the album for AllMusic, music critic Matthew Greenwald wrote, "the feeling of spontaneity and closeness of spirit engulfs all of the cuts here.

[7] Writer and music critic David Bennun calls the song "as sorrowful a motorcycle tune as you’ll ever hear," concluding, "it invokes an almost unbearable sadness at the prospect of leaving yet another love...It is easy to read too much into words in hindsight, but it truly does sound as if he is performing his own elegy.

"[8] Olson recalls of the song, "It conjured images, the first time Gene played it for me, of Michael Parks's character in Then Came Bronson, the 1969 television series.